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Aidan Severs Consulting

Empowering, Enhancing and Enriching in Education

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Along with being a primary school teacher and leader, blogging is where this all started for Aidan. If it wasn't for his passion for writing and sharing his learning and experiences, he wouldn't be working as an education consultant with schools across the country today. Shared best practice should be available to all and here on the Aidan Severs Consulting blog you can get ideas for making a difference in your own school. The blog is also a great place to learn exactly the kind of work that Aidan can partner with your school on.

How I Work With Charities To Develop Educational Resources

How I Work With Charities To Develop Educational Resources

How I Work With Charities To Develop Educational Resources

Creating educational resources is a great way for charities to connect with young people. See how I can help your charity to do this.

Apr 10, 20232 min read

Beyond Schools: Education Consultancy For Organisations

Beyond Schools: Education Consultancy For Organisations

Beyond Schools: Education Consultancy For Organisations

There are many organisations that benefit from working with an education consultant to enhance their educational offerings. How can I help?

Apr 10, 20232 min read

What Should You Do To Get Your New Classroom Ready?

What Should You Do To Get Your New Classroom Ready?

What Should You Do To Get Your New Classroom Ready?

Summer's nearly here and you might be itching to get into your new classroom to spruce it up. But what should you spend your time on?

Teacher Development

Jul 3, 20226 min read

How To Achieve Both Curriculum Cohesion And Teacher Autonomy

How To Achieve Both Curriculum Cohesion And Teacher Autonomy

How To Achieve Both Curriculum Cohesion And Teacher Autonomy

Not that long ago, back when I was a teacher and before I had any SLT responsibilities, I worked in a brilliant school where we teachers...

Apr 25, 20225 min read

Teacher Wellbeing: The Three Things You Need

Teacher Wellbeing: The Three Things You Need

Teacher Wellbeing: The Three Things You Need

Teachers need three things to ensure good wellbeing: competence, autonomy and relatedness. Here's how schools can provide them.

Apr 21, 20223 min read

Thoughtful Questioning: Why Cold Call Is Not Enough

Thoughtful Questioning: Why Cold Call Is Not Enough

Thoughtful Questioning: Why Cold Call Is Not Enough

Cold Calling is the name given to the practice of asking a question and then selecting a child to answer. The theory is that it causes...

Dec 16, 20217 min read

Forensic Assessment

Forensic Assessment

Forensic Assessment

As teachers we are all too familiar with the concept of assessment and its importance. We know that without assessment there is no...

Dec 15, 20216 min read

Beware The Reverse-Engineered Curriculum (or The Potential Pitfalls Of Retrieval Practice)

Beware The Reverse-Engineered Curriculum (or The Potential Pitfalls Of Retrieval Practice)

Beware The Reverse-Engineered Curriculum (or The Potential Pitfalls Of Retrieval Practice)

Aren't Knowledge Organisers brilliant? Isn't Retrieval Practice just the bees knees? As for Powerful Knowledge... sigh - the stuff dreams...

Dec 14, 20214 min read

Article Archive - Aidan Severs Consulting

Article Archive - Aidan Severs Consulting

Article Archive - Aidan Severs Consulting

Here you can find a collected list of most of the articles I (Aidan Severs) have written for other outlets, including TES, Teach Primary...

Dec 14, 20214 min read

PPA: It's Complicated

PPA: It's Complicated

PPA: It's Complicated

We are all quite glad when it rolls around again: that morning or afternoon where we really get the chance to take a break from the...

Nov 24, 20214 min read

Using Mnemonics For Retrieval Practice

Using Mnemonics For Retrieval Practice

Using Mnemonics For Retrieval Practice

What are mnemonics? Well, according to Wikipedia it is 'is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval...

Nov 16, 20215 min read

Whole Class Reading: Providing Challenge For Children Working At Greater Depth

Whole Class Reading: Providing Challenge For Children Working At Greater Depth

Whole Class Reading: Providing Challenge For Children Working At Greater Depth

With whole class reading increasing in popularity, one of the most asked questions is around the issue of catering to the needs of all learners. Recently, I tackled how to help lower prior attainers within the whole class reading session and promised at the end of that blog post to write this one. So here it is. To preface my suggestions I'd like to point out that this list is not at all exhaustive and what you do with the children in your class who are working at greater de

Nov 12, 20218 min read

Whole Class Reading: Meeting The Needs of Lower Attainers

Whole Class Reading: Meeting The Needs of Lower Attainers

Whole Class Reading: Meeting The Needs of Lower Attainers

Perhaps the biggest worry for teachers when considering the switch from the guided reading carousel to whole class reading is how children of different 'abilities' will manage in the lessons. There are, however, various strategies a teacher can employ to support learners with different needs. You'll have noticed that above I enclosed the word abilities with inverted commas. The first strategy is for a teacher to alter their way of thinking about ability. One possible problem

Nov 12, 20216 min read

Primary History: Key Questions To Ask About People, Events or Time Periods

Primary History: Key Questions To Ask About People, Events or Time Periods

Primary History: Key Questions To Ask About People, Events or Time Periods

Recently I posted a whole set of questions to ask when learning about a place in geography. Here are the primary history versions. They...

Subject Leadership

Nov 8, 20214 min read

The Right(est) Way To Teach Spelling (part 1)

The Right(est) Way To Teach Spelling (part 1)

The Right(est) Way To Teach Spelling (part 1)

Why words ought to be spelled correctly is an opinion piece best left for another time (or never at all). For now, let's assume that we...

Nov 3, 20218 min read

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